Ok folks went out this morning and got two miles and the engine management came on then the bike died liked someone had flicked the kill switch ???? Coasted to the side and I turned the ignition on/off a couple of time and she fired up no probs .....this has happened twice now once before after a stop went to start and nothing so on/off again and fired ........anyone else had the same ?????
I've not had my 848 long but thankfully, No, I haven't suffered anything like that. Personally I'd look for a loose wire or bad earth. I wouldn't think the electronics are playing up as they tend to be working or dead. It may be worth starting by having a look inside the kill switch, see if there's any damp or corrosion.
I'd be checking the immobilizer antenna around the key guard first, but.....did you have your phone in your holder on your top yolk n have a txt or call? Did you get any error code when the engine management light came on? I had something similar once at a petrol station....rode in fine, filled up, come out....no starty. Pushed it down the road away from the forecourt and it started no problem....once I was away from the mobile phone mast inside the petrol station sign....... Anth
Not that i have an 848 but i deffo think that this is worthy of consideration. This exact problem used to very occasionally affect my (sadly now sold) Subaru Impreza. If there was a very strong signal the fob also wouldnt activate the central locking. Push the car a few feet away and she'd start. Very annoying and sometimes very, very inconvenient..ie parked uphill on a parking meter.
Happened to me once on my '08 848 too. Only happened that one time and after a switch off and back on, it never happened again. Suggest get it to a dealer if it keeps happening and I'm sure they could plug their laptop in and run some diagnostics.
You can plug it into your own laptop with Ducatidiag and interrogate all the error codes the ecu has stored in it's history and clear them ....that's why I was asking if any showed on the dash first.:smile:
Check the 2 relays up on the RHS of the battery holder, just in front of the water pump housing. They get corroded on the contacts and can "flutter" as they get hot, ignition drops out and EOBD light gets a trigger. Immobaliser wouldn't usually cause an ignition cut once the bikes started for safety reasons.
Yeah got em , there was a wee bit of blue but I've cleaned it off and sprayed it to death with wd40 .... Fuck me I needed an engineering degree to get to it !!!! Damn you Ducati
